c) The combined savings to healthcare and the planet by adopting veganism is multi trillion dollar. Non-veganism is the great economic con of humanity. Using animals for food is a jaw dropingly inefficient use of money, land, water, energy and food. e.g. Why waste grain or soy feeding it to cattle when it could feed people? There’s millions of poor people dying to be fed a full meal.

d) Animal industry operates on the principle of the powerful exploiting the weak. In any situation imagine yourself in the position of the victim. Veganism is rejection of a gigantic establishment con. Marketing gimmicks and euphemisms are very different from the reality of systematic animal commoditisation, enslavement, abuse, violence, torture and slaughter. e.g. If we take ‘humane’ to mean something we are happy to be done to ourselves, why don’t people volunteer for the violence of ‘humane slaughter’ given to animals? Nor why don’t people volunteer their sons to be ground up while alive at a day old as per what the egg industry does to male chicks? From the earliest years children are fed animal derived food products. This produces a culture where slavery, cruelty and violence against other creatures is conditioned and supported by the most routine of society’s rituals, family meal time. This ritually sanctioned cruelty then manifests itself in other parts of society, e.g. in violence against women. Is it such a surprise so many mass murderers have histories of torturing animals? Buying non-vegan products supports a culture where not just routine but systematic slavery, abuse, cruelty and violence is accepted.

Bear in mind other forms of vegetarianism are sub-optimal choices. The egg industry is the same as the chicken industry. The dairy industry is the same as the beef industry. Consume dairy or eggs and you’re still:-

Your monetary value as a consumer over your life time is immense. There is also the effect you will have on those around you. The meat / dairy / egg / fish / sea food lobbies are one and the same. They won’t give you up without a hell of a fight. Prepare for them to hit you with a tsunami of misinformation and lies. They want to demonise veganism to try to win you back.

Don’t be conned by big business and their fake citizens groups and their payrolled academics trying to present the perception of unbiased opinion. Consider getting a health check to give you a baseline against which to measure veganism. Even relatively simple stuff like weight, heart rate, blood pressure, respiration, urine test, blood test; such results can give you hard and fast metrics. Then get another test some time in future (six months? Twelve months?). The improvements should be inarguable regardless of what any lobby group says. Don’t use waiting for the health check as a reason to delay trying vegan. The sooner you’re vegan the better for everyone. If the health check is after you start trying vegan then no issue.

Everybody learns new things everyday. Animal products crop up in all sorts of things. Give it your best shot. When it turns out something has sneaked past your defences, don’t beat yourself up. Stay positive, learn from experience and move forward. See point 5.

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5. Use technology

Try these:-

Is it vegan is a mobile tool for anyone interested in eliminating animal products from their diet. Scan a food / beverage bar code with your phone and the app answers the question, Is it vegan?

Vegan Passport – languages open doors. Simple is genius. This app is a must

Barnivore – fish, cow or pig extract and other non-vegan ingredients are widely used as manufacturing aids for alcoholic drinks. This sounds odd at first but remember this; we live in a world where most people consider eating animal corpses is normal. Barnivore is a booze directory website to help vegan boozers avoid pitfalls. It also has links to apps that run on top of it

b) have protein that have negative effects on the human body (animal and plant proteins have different molecular chemistry)

c) come packaged with a whole bunch of other nasties the human body is better off without

As the PCRM people state, “To consume a diet that contains enough, but not too much, protein, simply replace animal products with grains, vegetables, legumes (peas, beans, and lentils), and fruits. As long as one is eating a variety of plant foods in sufficient quantity to maintain one’s weight, the body gets plenty of protein.”

There’s a variety of great vegan athletes out there. They perform at the upper limit of physical human capability. They get sufficient protein so why can’t anyone who has adequate access to food?

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8. Eat the rainbow

That there’s different nutrients in different plant derived foods is visible from the different colours. A diet consisting of this vast array of nutrients working in concerto is what packs a healthy punch. Thus eat as wide a variety of different coloured plant foods as you can to enjoy that synergy.